The Official Status Thread
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin Thunderbird doesn't support Exchange IIRC but it does support IMAP which M365 also supports.
Assuming your IT team enabled IMAP access. It’s quite possible they didn’t for “security”
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
It’s quite possible they didn’t for “security”
And the issue there is that credentials are communicated in the clear… over a TLS-encrypted channel. Oh no!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin Thunderbird doesn't support Exchange IIRC but it does support IMAP which M365 also supports.
Why would anyone voluntarily use anything other than IMAP?
I probably don’t want to know.
I ask myself questions like that frequently. Now come here and let me tell you about the Wheel of Time.
STATUS gonna be putting my newfound angular knowledge to use soon. Wait until they learn I know fuck-all about HTML, CSS and basic JS. It's going to be a shitshow.
I'm not sure what order to learn those in though. I think I'll do them in the order specified.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Wait until they learn I know fuck-all about HTML, CSS and basic JS. It's going to be a shitshow.
You're gonna fit right in!
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Status: Feeling a bit more pony than usual, apparently...
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
let me tell you about the Wheel of Time
Lots of books with excessive quantities of braid pulling.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Feeling a bit more pony than usual, apparently...
I've noticed.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Feeling a bit more pony than usual, apparently...
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
communicated in the clear… over a TLS-encrypted channel
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@topspin Exactly.
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@cvi said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Yes. They call it SMTP or someshit.
That's an option. I think I remember how that works, and I already have
nc
installed on my system. I'd probably have preferred using a GUI in this case, but I realize that creating a GUI application that actually works is asking a bit much.Thunderbird mostly works.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@cvi said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Yes. They call it SMTP or someshit.
That's an option. I think I remember how that works, and I already have
nc
installed on my system. I'd probably have preferred using a GUI in this case, but I realize that creating a GUI application that actually works is asking a bit much.Thunderbird mostly works.
If it only mostly works you need to be drinking faster.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Thunderbird mostly works.
If it only mostly works you need to be drinking faster.
They f'd something up recently where the google calendar connection was hosed and caused google to reject the connection because it asked too many times.
Turns out (after much searching) the google calendar plugin for TB is no longer needed. TB can now connect without that.
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@dcon seamless
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Status: Trying to order a Dust Buster and TMNT arcade cabinet with my Red Card only for Target to go "oops, something happened."
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Feeling a bit more pony than usual, apparently...
Status: not sure if I should reboot @Tsaukpaetra or not.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
the google calendar plugin for TB is no longer needed.
It's never been needed if you don't use Google calendar.
Seriously, I've been using Thunderbird since 1.0 (probably) or not long after. I've always been happy with it. Well, almost always. Except the one time it deleted a ton of emails it shouldn't have deleted, but I was able to recover them successfully.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
not sure if I should reboot @Tsaukpaetra or not.
Always the safest option.
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Status: Windows 10 installer let me install on a RAID controller when booted via UEFI. This is fine.
However, said controller is not, in fact, UEFI compatible, and thus when the installer rebooted all I'm left at is a blinking _ cursor. No, not even a "Non system disk or disk error.". just blinking.
And this is a server board, so each boot attempt takes over four minutes.
Yay.
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Status: Took me an entire 1 hour online training course to realize the voiceover is synthesized.
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@Zenith Apparently the Red Card stops working if you miss a payment. I guess it's going to keep being stupid until said payment is actually deducted overnight.
Also, DSL suddenly went down. It says I have an Internet connection but DNS won't resolve. Won't work for the work laptop either, which has conveniently decided Office isn't activated because it can't phone home.
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I finally beat The Witcher 3.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
DSL suddenly went down
This reminds me of something @Polygeekery posted somewhere.
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@Polygeekery Precisely.
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Status: Ordered parts for a new computer today. Here's hoping I actually get them and they work.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
not sure if I should reboot @Tsaukpaetra or not.
Always the safest option.
He's more brony than man now. Might be time to consider sending him to the giant rust bucket in the sky.
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But... who would upvote our posts?
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
not sure if I should reboot @Tsaukpaetra or not.
Always the safest option.
He's more brony than man now. Might be time to consider sending him to the giant rust bucket in the sky.
Just because you ate too much glue as a small child is no reason to be afraid of ponies
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
But... who would upvote our posts?
Who upvotes the upvoters?
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@Zenith This is stupid.
CenturyLink won't divulge a phone support number. They want you to use the online chatbot. When your internet is down. At first I struggled with using a smartphone until it dawned on me I should be using a computer connected through the smartphone. All the right modem lights are on. Wireless devices can connect to the modem but don't have internet. Wired devices show a full path to the internet but still can't connect. Diagnostics guesses DNS is broken but adding three more did nothing. Plugging a wireless card into the desktop wouldn't let me log into my modem even though I confirmed it was the right passphrase. I even checked to see if my bill is current because they do shit like this when I miss one.
Eventually I hook a laptop up to a smartphone and get into the chat that way. Their dumb automated tested fails on step 3 of 4. The mook at the other end wants me to change settings in the modem. I humor him because it's already set up the way he says I need to change it. So while I'm waiting to reboot, he disconnects and points to the survey. Of course this disappeared the list of instructions he gave me maybe 30 seconds earlier. So I don't know if I got everything in the instructions. And it still doesn't work.
Another hour of fighting and I decided to plug a laptop directly into the modem with an RJ45 cable. That brings up some sort of CenturyLink setup page to click through and that ends up fixing all of the devices in the house. I don't know how it decided that device should trigger a setup or if they fucked up my account and it just happened to turn back on at the right time.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
But... who would upvote our posts?
I could take over. I think I've proven I've nothing better to do most days.
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Just because you ate too much glue as a small child is no reason to be afraid of ponies
I only ate one tub of glue when I was a child. After that, my mother hid the glue. I haven't had a sniff of it since.
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Status: to merge or not to merge, that is the question /
whether tis knobbier of the path to squash, to note /
or make harms against the sea of wobbles /
and in that swimming get lost on a desert island made of low-level concerns and end up eating my shoes
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
DSL suddenly went down
This reminds me of something @Polygeekery posted somewhere.
There's an entire specialist website devoted to this exact phenomenon.
slight modulo, it's not always sudden, there's sometimes foreshadowing
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
install on a RAID controller
I fucking hate hate HATE hardware RAID.
Fucking let me use arbitrary disks I plug in you fucking moronic piece of shit!
No, I have to define a gorram virtual disk of a RAID 0 with the one disk in it. What the hell!
I find myself incredibly lucky I didn't try just pushing a drive in when it was still configured as RAID 1 (and having removed one of the drives intentionally to break it because, surprise, the backplane is borked due to stressed power port on the motherboard), because according to the manual it would have instantly, automatically, and silently started rebuilding whatever drive I put into it.
I am SO TEMPTED to try flashing the JBOD-mode firmware onto this thing, but since I just want this unit out the door, screw it, shipping it with two RAID 0 virtual drives of one disk each. Ass!
Oh well, I urged the recipient that this band-aid fix will not hold and they're seeking a replacement anyways. You know, one that isn't 9 years old...
They asked if I could just skip the Windows 10 part (long story) and go straight to 11 and I (virtually) rolled my eyes and said, bro, it doesn't even have a TPM so the bitlocker needs a USB key or password to work, Windows 11 will likely flat-out not work on it.
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Given the power of your technology distortion field, I think you should store your data on stone tablets.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
stone tablets.
Where do you think all this dust came from?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
it doesn't even have a TPM so the bitlocker needs a USB key or password to work, Windows 11 will likely flat-out not work on it.
You can. UEFI is required. (I just brought up a Win11 VM in VirtualBox which has not implemented TPM - you have to break into regedit before the install starts and add a couple magic keys)
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
it doesn't even have a TPM so the bitlocker needs a USB key or password to work, Windows 11 will likely flat-out not work on it.
You can. UEFI is required. (I just brought up a Win11 VM in VirtualBox which has not implemented TPM - you have to break into regedit before the install starts and add a couple magic keys)
Regedit, the fabled Windows GUI for problem solving (and creating more)
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Status: Yay, it finally let me buy that arcade cabinet and Dust Buster.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
you have to break into regedit before the install starts and add a couple magic keys
You can also use this to create install images that skip those checks
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
UEFI is required.
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Windows 10 installer let me install on a RAID controller when booted via UEFI. This is fine.
However, said controller is not, in fact, UEFI compatible, and thus when the installer rebooted all I'm left at is a blinking _ cursor. No, not even a "Non system disk or disk error.". just blinking.
And this is a server board, so each boot attempt takes over four minutes.
Yay.
This isn't my personal computer, they kinda expect it to at least work!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
UEFI is required.
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Windows 10 installer let me install on a RAID controller when booted via UEFI. This is fine.
However, said controller is not, in fact, UEFI compatible, and thus when the installer rebooted all I'm left at is a blinking _ cursor. No, not even a "Non system disk or disk error.". just blinking.
And this is a server board, so each boot attempt takes over four minutes.
Yay.
This isn't my personal computer, they kinda expect it to at least work!
You know what they say about assumptions.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Given the power of your technology distortion field, I think you should store your data on stone tablets.
Given the kind of damage a chisel can do, how about a string of beads instead? I don't want to be around when something surprisingly wrong happens in a field with a history as long as stone-cutting's, loosely defining "around" as "within shortwave radio range".
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
This isn't my personal computer, they kinda expect it to at least work!
And they let you touch it?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
This isn't my personal computer, they kinda expect it to at least work!
And they let you touch it?
I was their
lastonly hope...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
This isn't my personal computer, they kinda expect it to at least work!
And they let you touch it?
I was their
lastonly hope...That's real desperation.
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Status: Dinner: Fish fingers and custard.